Author's novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing was rejected by publishers nine years ago as too experimental
Eimear McBride, who has won the Goldsmiths prize for literature for her novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Text)
Irish-British writer Eimear McBride has won the inaugural £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for her "boldly original and utterly compelling" novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which was originally rejected by publishers for being too experimental.
McBride said there was "a long time when I thought I would never have this book published, and I felt quite depressed about the state of publishing as a result. To have a prize like this is a really wonderful thing to encourage writers to be adventurous … to encourage publishers to be adventurous … and readers to be adventurous".
The book is a stream-of-consciousness account of an abused young girl who goes off the rails. Reviewing it in the Guardian, Booker prize-winning writer Anne Enright described McBride as "that old fashioned thing, a genius, in that she writes truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose that can be, on occasion, quite hard to read."
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McBride said there was "a long time when I thought I would never have this book published, and I felt quite depressed about the state of publishing as a result. To have a prize like this is a really wonderful thing to encourage writers to be adventurous … to encourage publishers to be adventurous … and readers to be adventurous".
The book is a stream-of-consciousness account of an abused young girl who goes off the rails. Reviewing it in the Guardian, Booker prize-winning writer Anne Enright described McBride as "that old fashioned thing, a genius, in that she writes truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose that can be, on occasion, quite hard to read."
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